Introduction
I’ve been side-tracked for a while doing personal articles, so I thought it would be a good time to get back to some technical explanations. Seeing that I work for Cisco now, I thought it would be a good time to cover some Cisco technology. My focus here has been on programmability and automation. Some of this work has involved using tools like Puppet and Ansible to configure switches, as well as Python and NETCONF. I also recently had a chance to present BRKNMS-2002 at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, on LAN management with Data Center Network Manager 10. It was my first Cisco Live breakout, and of course I had a few problems, from projector issues to live demo failures. Ah well. But for those of you who don’t have access to the CL library, or the time to watch the breakout, I thought I’d cover an important DCNM concept for you here on my blog.